11/20 PBE Update: Snowdown Splash Art

The PBE has been updated! As we continue the 8.24 PBE cycle, today's patch includes splash art for Frozen Prince Mundo, Winter Wonder Soraka, Ice King Twitch, and Snow Man Yi!

Continue reading for more information!

(Warning: PBE Content is tentative and subject to change - what you see below may not reflect what eventually gets pushed to live servers at the end of the cycle! Manage your expectations accordingly.)

Nexus Blitz

Here's a changelist from Riot August, showing off new changes versus the last time Nexus Blitz tested on live servers:

"To prove that we haven't been slacking off over the last few months, here's all the changes we've made to Nexus Blitz since it's 1.0 version. It's like we got our very own pre-season!

Map

Map art has been updated to be prettier and more polished using SR assets. (We still plan to retheme the map to something New/non-SR if the mode becomes permanent.)

Added a ton of announcer VO to tell you what's going on!

Map has been adjusted to increase jungle variance, reduce snowball, and enforce a longer laning phase

Jungle

Added a new middle jungle with a gromp beween the lanes.

There is no longer a river and Water walking will be swapped for Scorch (the river may come back if we make NB permanent)

Red buff has been moved down towards top lane.

Blue buff has been moved into the middle jungle to encourage fights around bot lane

Jungle XP and gold has been decreased over game time to account for the 4th camp

Jungle camp damage/health/resist scaling has been reduced. This should make it easier to jungle alone as the game progresses (jungling together is still important early and still gives bonus gold/XP for the entire game)

Gromp no longer takes bonus damage from single target spells or when CC'd

Wolves still explode because it is the biologically correct thing for wolves to do.

Lane

Minions now spawn slightly more often

Minions are worth slightly less gold and experience

Fixed a bug where minion global gold wasn't granted to people who were dead

Global gold from mionions and monsters has been slightly reduced (should help with snowball)

Minion late game MS has been reduced

Inhib towers have 50% DR until both outer towers have been destroyed

Added a 2nd nexus tower and decreased Nexus Tower Health

Events

Time between events has been slightly normalized.

The first event of the game is now announced in champion select (pick Poppy)

The next event will be now revealed 30 seconds before it starts (instead of on event start)

Certain events have received updated score meters to better represent what is going on.

Added Arena

Added URF Death Match

Removed snowball fight

Push the Cart

Added a variant (Attack/Defend)

Push the Cart now has overtime

Standing in the cart circle is now guaranteed to stop it pushing

Battle Royale

Circle center should no longer spawn directly behind enemy towers

Rewards

Added Battle Sled

Added Poro King

Added Statikk Shock

Added Mega Cloud Drake

Buffed Mega Ocean drake Regen

Nerfed Blessing of Blitzcrank missile speed

Removed Cursed Minions, Blessing of Caitlyn, and Brush Stealth

Sudden Death

Death timers are set to 15 seconds during Sudden Death

Nexus minions will now wait for each other near the middle of the map instead of pathing into the enemy base

Added new dope as hell models for the Nexus bois/gurls

Systems

"On-fire" buff now reduces incoming shields and healing by 15%

"On-Fire" buff now gives less mana and energy Regen

Death timers are slightly longer early and slightly shorter late.

Bans have been added to champion select.

MMR's for Nexus Blitz queue are now seeded from your normal SR MMR. This should result in games feeling more even right out the gate.

Items

Removed Wriggle's Lantern

Added Stat-stick of Stoicism

Added Innervating Locket

Force of Nature's % max health regen:: 1% >>> 1.5%

Heart of Targon and Philospher's stone GP/10:: 3 >>> 5

Champions

Akali

HP 550 >>> 630

AD: 62+3.3/lvl >>> 65 + 4/lvl

Armor: 23 > 28

Bard

Fixed a bug where bard got too many chimes

Lux

Elementalist Lux's transforms are now easier to obtain in Nexus Blitz.

Shyvana

Shyvana now gains stacks of her passive when she wins an event

Shyvana's passive now deals bonus damage to the Rift Herald and Nexus Mini

Context & Notes

We’ve got some new Chromas coming up for Winter Wonder Soraka, Ice King Twitch, Frozen Prince Mundo, Snow Man Yi, a special set of Golden Chromas, and a launch set for Winter Wonder Neeko!

Winter Wonder Soraka:

New textures:

Winter Wonder Soraka (Ruby)

Winter Wonder Soraka (Pearl)

Winter Wonder Soraka (Obsidian)

Winter Wonder Soraka (Amethyst)

Winter Wonder Soraka (Rose Quartz)

Image Coming Soon

Ice King Twitch:

New textures:

Ice King Twitch (Ruby)

Ice King Twitch (Obsidian)

Ice King Twitch (Rose Quartz)

Ice King Twitch (Rainbow)

Ice King Twitch (Tanzanite)

Frozen Prince Mundo:

New textures:

Frozen Prince Mundo (Ruby)

Frozen Prince Mundo (Aquamarine)

Frozen Prince Mundo (Obsidian)

Frozen Prince Mundo (Pearl)

Frozen Prince Mundo (Rose Quartz)

Image Coming Soon

Snow Man Yi:

New textures:

Snow Man Yi (Ruby)

Snow Man Yi (Rose Quartz)

Snow Man Yi (Pearl)

Snow Man Yi (Amethyst)

Snow Man Yi (Obsidian)

Winter Wonder Neeko:

New textures:

Winter Wonder Neeko (Ruby)

Winter Wonder Neeko (Catseye)

Winter Wonder Neeko (Peridot)

Winter Wonder Neeko (Turquoise)

Winter Wonder Neeko (Amethyst)

Winter Wonder Neeko (Rose Quartz)

Winter Wonder Neeko (Obsidian)

Winter Wonder Neeko (Rainbow)

Golden Chromas:

New textures:

Snow Day Graves (Golden)

Snow Day Bard (Golden)

Snowstorm Sivir (Golden)

Frostblade Irelia (Golden)

Snow Day Malzahar (Golden)

The Chroma sets are now available on PBE! We hope you all will enjoy the new sets; as usual, we’re looking forward to hearing your constructive feedback. I’ll do my best to answer and reply to your questions and feedback!

Thanks!
Riot Orphyre"

Check out [THIS PAGE] for a comprehensive list of the new content & changes currently on the PBE as a part of this cycle or catch up with the individual update links below !